pasture
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Livestock and crops die where pasture and water supplies are buried or contaminated by ash.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The government has put the dearth of milk in recent months down to drought, which has significantly reduced pasture and hampered production.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“There’s no paid staff, and we mostly support niche tech projects, like people exploring new ways to preserve trees in Morocco or to regeneratively regrow a pasture in Oregon,” Khosla told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The loss of pasture land to raiding neighbours could mean the difference between subsistence and starvation, so there was much less room for compromise.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The Cotswolds was badly hit by the drought, leaving grazing pastures brown and without any nutrition for the cows.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
She is one of a number of Europeans who are moving north in search of cooler weather and greener pastures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
In the Rocky Mountains, years of extreme heat and drought have baked the landscape, drying up streams that feed the Colorado River and desiccating pastures where cattle graze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
But the summer's drought, which affected 95 percent of mainland France in July, has left normally rich pastures dry and bare.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
He knew all the fields and pastures of Andalusia.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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More recently, Lake, who grows vegetables such as asparagus, tomatoes and zucchini, as well as pastured meat, has been using software and an app from a company called Tend.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
And while players won’t get free laundry and dry cleaning, or a menu containing pastured eggs and wild-caught seafood in player dining, they at least get access to cold plunges and courtesy cars.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Lee sources the beef for her burgers from Seven Hills Food, the slaughterhouse and processing facility that specializes in pastured Virginia beef.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021
Shopping for 100% grassfed beef or pastured chicken used to mean seeking out a specialty butcher shop, visiting a farmers' market, or going straight to the source by stopping by a local farm.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2021
Zoyla and Gregoria and I used to play market together while we pastured the animals.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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The tradition of alpine pasturing, or “transhumance,” spreads all across the Alps, including Austria, Italy and Germany.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
In the past 30 years, swaths of Nicaragua's vast Caribbean forests have been destroyed by settlers clearing land for agriculture, ranchers pasturing cattle, and loggers harvesting precious wood.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2020
“We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
“And what is the history? The horse pasturing has been going on for a long time there with no objection.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
“Cleaning the house and taking care of the boys and pasturing the cow.”
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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